7:06 AM,
May 24, 2012

Miami Heat's Udonis Haslem was suspended one game for intentionally fouling the Indiana Pacers' Tyler Hansbrough in Game 5 Tuesday.

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Here is news and analysis heading into Game 6 of the Pacers-Heat series:

Palm Beach Post
Ethan J. Skolnick writes that anyone who believes Larry Bird didn't have an ulterior motive with his "soft" comments after Game 5 still buys into the whole "Hick from French Lick" persona. "Basketball people know he's a hardwood killer, his mind the only thing sharper than his elbows," Skolnick writes. "They know that his few public words have purpose, especially when he says something on the record like he did late Tuesday to an Indianapolis Star reporter."